A curious incident occurred on Wednesday at about 13:40 at the Gorkovskaya metro station in St. Petersburg. According to the Baltic news agency , the train driver accidentally opened the doors during a short stop, and two women managed to go to the repaired platform. Passengers were noticed in time and let them go back to the carriage through the driver's cab. The Gorkovskaya metro station was closed for major repairs on October 11, 2008.

The Russians met New Year and Christmas on a scale, increasing consumer expenses by 22%in December. But, according to the Romir Panel study, which calculates the home consumption index, immediately after the New Year holidays, this indicator decreased by 17%in Russia. Before the holidays, the capital's residents spent a lot, markedly ahead of the population of the rest of the country.

All banks in the name of which use the word "Russia" and derivatives from it will be able to wait for renaming, which is required by the Civil Code (Civil Code). Deputies gave the right to all banks - both private and state - to contact the government for a special permission to use the previous name, Kommersant writes.

Police on Manezhnaya Square of Moscow detained 30 people who tried to hold an illegal action demanding that Vladimir Lenin be reburied. This was reported by Kasparov.ru with reference to RIA "Novosti" . The agency, in turn, refers to the representative of the information management of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

The Petersburg Publishing House of the ABC-Classica, with the support of the German Cultural Center named after Goethe, published the book of Pope Benedict XVI "Jesus from Nazareth" in Russian. Her representation of the public of the Northern capital took place today in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine, reports ITAR-TASS. In Moscow, the presentation of the book was held on December 2 last year.

The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov continued to update the Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday. He appointed new heads of the Ministry of Defense and the Border Service, ITAR-TASS reports. The appointments were made at the first meeting of the country's Security Council in the coming year, a source in the Turkmen government told the agency. Berdyev, who previously headed the migration service of the republic, was appointed Minister of Defense.

The Tagansky court of Moscow recognized the decision of the November Congress of the "Union of Right Forces" on the self -destruction of the party. Thus, the court rejected the corresponding claim of the member of the Federal Political Council of the ATP Maria Gaidar and the Moscow cell of the political association, Interfax reports on Wednesday. The court announced only the resolution of the decision.

The Spanish Ministry of Defense plans to send two ships to fight with piracy off the coast of Somali, on which there will be 395 military personnel. This was announced during a speech in the country's parliament on Wednesday by the Minister of Defense Karme Chakon.

The market of Russian shares completed the auction on Wednesday growth of most liquid papers and basic indices followed by the rise of American stock sites and oil, Interfax reports. The RTS index exceeded 530 points. Recall that on the eve of the RTS, it rolled into the area of ​​500 points - this is the level of November 2003. Then in Russia there was an unprecedented collapse of the market, primarily caused by the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the end of October.

The European Figure Skating Championship in Finnish Helsinki on Wednesday continued a short program in men's competitions. According to her results, the leader of the World 2007, French Brian Zhubert, who received 86.90 points from judges and made a significant application to win the continent championship from judges. The intermediate second place is occupied by the European champion-2008 Czech Tomash Werner (81.45), and the third is the Italian Samuel Constitution (75.95).

On the occasion of the inauguration of the dark -skinned President of the United States Barack Obama, residents of Kenya arranged a real holiday. The journalist of the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung spoke about the "family celebration" of Kenytsev, who covered not only the small homeland of Obama - the Kogelo - but the whole country.

The Foreign Minister of the European Union and Israeli countries and representatives of the highest European leadership gather in Brussels to discuss the situation in the Palestinian Gaza Strip after a three -week Israeli military operation. On Wednesday, the Israeli Foreign Minister Cipi Livni flew to the Belgian capital.

All this night, the fire on the basis of the US Air Force ICOOT under Tokyo, where the premises of the representative office of the financial service of the Ministry of Defense were almost completely destroyed - about 3.7 thousand square meters. meters. Even the next morning, on January 21, white smoke rises above the fire zone, the American military continues to fight the consequences of the emergency, ITAR-TASS reports. The reasons for the fire are still not declared.

US President Barack Obama decided to leave his limousine and walk with his wife on foot the last few hundred meters from the Capitol Hill to the White House. At the end of the inauguration ceremony and a solemn dinner within the walls of Congress, the American leader went to his residence at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1600, opening a traditional colorful parade.

All duty services of cities and regions of the Primorsky Territory are brought into a state of increased readiness in connection with an impending strong cyclone. This decision was made at a meeting of the regional commission to prevent and eliminate emergency situations and ensure fire safety, ITAR-TASS reports. The operational regional headquarters was created, which included representatives of rescuers, the Internal Affairs Directorate and the regional department of road facilities.